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Director Feng chatted in Qiantang for a few days, then left, and asked Gu Cheng to ask his subordinates to seal a red envelope of 200,000 yuan, which was considered a carriage fee. After all, the other party is also a big name, and a film is paid millions of dollars, and it is not easy to run empty when he comes out to give some advice.

Then Lin Zhiling began to look for resources, according to the idea that Gu Cheng and Director Feng had chatted with that day.

The first eyebrow is the director, and when he heard that he wanted to find a good director from Wanwan, Lin Zhiling naturally tried his best to ask for friends.

After all, Gu Cheng is entering the film industry for the first time, and the real world's top directors also want to save face, and it is impossible to say that you will come to shoot if you give more money. If you smash your reputation for a lifetime, then things will be in trouble.

If you want to say that the Chinese director with the highest coffee position at the moment, no matter what nationality, it must be Li Yu, and it happens to be Wanwan.

After all, it is the director of the Golden Bear and Golden Lion Oscar one by one, which is unprecedented and unique among the Chinese.

Lin Zhiling wanted to contact him at first, but he couldn't get in touch, but then asked Jiang Youbo, the husband of his girlfriend in the modeling circle, to help, and finally handed over the invitation letter, drove 1 million carriage and horse expenses, and begged the other party to meet.

Li Yu naturally doesn't look down on the 1 million, but the favors of his friends are not easy to refute, and he reluctantly met with Gu Cheng and Lin Zhiling.

Gu Cheng combined his thoughts with the ideas that he had developed after discussing with Director Feng, and roughly told Li Huan, and at the same time felt the bottom of it face to face to see what Li Huan's real materials were and whether his artistic insights were enough.

After some communication, Gu Cheng was sure that Li Yan's idea was very good, and unlike most other directors, he liked to know it and why it was true.

What he is best at is notoriously bold when questioning the mainstream "historical inevitability". Wherever everyone thinks that history should be like this, Li Yu is always willing to stand on the opposite side and ponder the possibility of historical forks. For example, if this kind of person is left in the world of online novels, it is the existence of the world's first overhead deduction ability.

For example, five years ago, when he made the film "Riding with the Devil" with the theme of the Mi Civil War (Civil War), he boldly added some reverse scales that all Mi directors did not dare to touch: when he showed the battle of the Confederate Army (the Southern Army during the Civil War), he restored some black slaves who fought to the death for slave owners in the Confederate Army!

You must know that in the political correctness of the United States, President Lincoln is the greatest! He fought for the liberation of black slaves! How could black slaves not know how to fight for their slave owners and resist the righteous Union troops who came to liberate them?

However, according to real history, there were black slaves in the Confederate army who fought for their slave owners.

Because black slaves also have three, six, nine and so on, not all black slaves are lazy cancer or non-progressive cancer patients. There are also black slaves with the "dream of the United States", who work as fast and as good as they can, and after being "rewarded" by the slave owner with the status of overseer, they turn to squeeze other black slaves and squeeze them very well.

Just as when the black slave trade was ended in the West at the end of the 19th century, it was not the white slave traders who opposed it the most, but the black slave chiefs in Africa. When some of the slave chiefs heard that the British were no longer allowed to buy slaves, they were so angry that they scolded: "What cat doesn't want to die with a mouse in its mouth?

The most ferocious during the Anti-Japanese War was not necessarily the devil, but also the traitor and the two devils, a truth. There was nothing wrong with such black slaves fighting to the death for the sake of their slave owners.

But because of this political incorrectness, Li Yu was finally cut, and these shots were all harmonized by the film review agency in the United States. This was the case when he later tried to deal with the subject of the Civil War.

Therefore, in the future, don't say that only the domestic General Administration will be harmonious, in fact, there are also people in the United States, and there are also rules and regulations in the Oscar Directors Guild that explicitly and implicitly stipulate thousands of things that cannot be filmed.

Such a Li Eucalyptus has no shortage of reflective vision to look forward. He even dared to reproduce the case of black slaves, which shows that in his eyes, all things that "should be inevitably crushed by the wheel of history and history" are fart, and they can be excavated "In fact, historical and cultural heritage can also be extracted from these dross".

It's a pity that the talent is enough, but the people just rejected Gu Cheng very willfully.

After meeting and drinking a few cups of coffee and chatting about things, Li Yu said bluntly: "I'm tired, I don't think your theory can represent the future trend, and I don't think your story can show your thoughts well." When you've proven the first stage, and you're not fooling around in the film industry, come back to me. ”

"Uncle Eucalyptus, don't you think about it anymore, as far as I know, you don't have a contract in hand right now," Gu Cheng still wanted to make a final effort.

"It's not easy to get a film appointment, but "Hulk" is a loss-making product, which has made me tired. I want to rest, I'm not sure what I'm proving, I don't want to touch right now. ”

"Hulk" is a movie made by Li Yu last year, which was released in the United States 9 months ago, and the Marvel IP adaptation bought by Universal Pictures cost $100 million 400 million, and the box office was 200 million 5, which is considered a hit on the street. (Generally considering the publicity and box office sharing, the box office must be at least two and a half times the production cost to protect the capital, and "Hulk" needs 300 million 500 million to protect the capital.) ）

Li Yu stopped for half a year, and he didn't want to take on the film casually, for fear of completely ruining his lifelong reputation. Historically, he took a year off from work, and then finally felt the political correctness of Hollywood, pinched his nose and made a "Brokeback Mountain" that praised LGBT, and then hit the street with "Hulk Hulk" and won the Oscar for Best Director.

Gu Cheng's films are not mixed with the Oscars, and it is impossible to even participate in foreign language film awards, and the Oscars do not appreciate these, Li Yu doesn't want to die again.

In the final analysis, Gu Cheng is just the richest man in the Chinese Internet circle, and the Internet industry in 04 is not awesome.

In Huaxia, there are 10 people who are richer than Gu Cheng on the surface, and the invisible rich are not counted.

But among the Chinese and Chinese in the world, only Li Yu came in the three awards.

To put it bluntly, Li Yu also felt that Gu Cheng was a bit of a nouveau riche, and his ideas were too whimsical and unreliable.

What's more, this is Gu Cheng's first movie, and before that, his three qualifications were all TV series. If you invite Li Yu only with this qualification, there must be people outside who are terrifying, and regard Li Yu as a guy who is attached to the powerful and sees money and picks up bad movies.

And Gu Cheng is not just investing money, with Gu Cheng's limitations on the angle, thoughts, and story of this film, he will definitely be one of the main screenwriters in the end. Even if it's a half-finished book from someone else, it's magical.、And then polished by someone else.。

"The number one Chinese director Li Eucalyptus filmed Gu Cheng's screenplay", as soon as this kind of news spreads, Li Eucalyptus's reputation will be over.

"Okay, it's my invitation that is abrupt, and when I prove that my idea is not a fool, when I want to enter Hollywood in the future, I will find Uncle Eucalyptus to cooperate. Gu Cheng could afford to put it down, and he didn't entangle it anymore.

"Thank you for your understanding. Your idea is actually very good, but the risk is too great, and I can't afford to lose in my current situation. In this way, I will introduce you to a close friend, who will definitely be willing to take it, and the strength is enough. In the future, if you really succeed, and when you go to Hollywood, you still look at me, I will definitely wait for it. ”

This is all a matter of people respecting me and respecting people, Gu Cheng is so polite, Li Yan is embarrassed to let Gu Cheng continue to bump blindly in the circle, and finally introduced the right person to Gu Cheng directly.

……

The friend introduced by Li Yu is naturally also the director of Wanwan in the same period.

is named Cai Mingliang, and he is a perennial Venice Film Festival. The coffee position is naturally slightly lower than that of Li Yu, but he has won the Golden Lion Award, the highest award at the Venice Film Festival, and has been nominated for the Golden Lion three times before and after. In the Wanwan film circle, Director Cai's level can also be squeezed into the top three.

In particular, Li Yu asked Gu Cheng to watch Director Cai's new film "Not Scattered" last year, and it can be seen that it is also an idea director who does not stay at the level of "nostalgia" when exploring traditional cultural values.

To meet this, at least a forward-looking art film director. Even if it is not as good as the Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore, at least he is the most miraculous in the Chinese circle.

Because Li Cheng took his own friendship package ticket to say yes, Gu Cheng was not too worried about Director Cai's refusal. I called Director Cai that night to roughly explain the situation, and the other party should go down in principle, and let Gu Cheng finalize the story outline of the script before talking about it in person.

And then it's time to find a book. The hard work paid off, Lin Zhiling helped sweep the books that were not favored by the major Fusang production companies on the market in the warehouse, and bought them at a low price if they thought they were okay. It took a few days for Gu Cheng to find a good story that was quite suitable, looking forward in life and discovering beauty.

And it also meets the requirements of Director Feng who said at the beginning, "Your script has to combine light and dark lines, and there are rising and descending group dramas".

Five days later, Gu Cheng flew to Taipei with a draft of the script, accompanied only by Lin Zhiling, and made an appointment to meet Director Cai Mingliang.

"Director Cai, it's a pleasure to meet you. "As soon as I met Gu Cheng, he was very polite, a scholarly culture, and there was no nouveau riche domineering.

Cai Mingliang is a bald head in his forties, wearing old-school gold-wire glasses, and he looks a little horizontal on his face, not like a Sven, but his conversation is surprisingly elegant.

"Mr. Gu is young and promising, when Brother Li relayed your invitation to me, I thought you were an idea. But I can't think of a story that can carry your big idea -- can you read the script?"

Gu Cheng gave Lin Zhiling a look, and Lin Zhiling directly took out a folder from his carry-on bag and handed it over.

Cai Mingliang looked at the cover, and frowned slightly: ""Sunset in Sanchome"? This script is not easy to change, as soon as you hear the name, it is a Fusang movie." ”

"We can be a little bit more magically realistic, trying to downplay the historical context of the story. I believe you have also heard a sentence from Director Cai: What happened in Fusang 40 years ago, Wanwan will happen again 20 years ago, and now it will be repeated in the mainland. Not all, of course, but the general pattern is pretty much the same.

I want to make a film that predicts the future cultural transformation of the mainland, and if I look back at the historical materials of the mainland, I don't have to make it. As long as the story has a warning meaning. Why care where it happens. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" didn't say that it happened in Colombia. ”